barack obama put together -- barack obama put together a task force of fbi agents and u.s. attorneys in south texas to both investigate and prosecute voter fraud in texas. and they prosecuted people and put them in jail. so voter fraud is real. it must be stopped. we need every tool to go after it. but that said, i want to make clear i have no information or data about what happened in the most recent presidential election. steve: absolutely. and i don't know that donald trump has any hard information. he just has seen studies and stuff like that according to sean spicer. and an investigation is coming. meanwhile, one of the things that donald trump signed yesterday, i believe, was an executive order regarding sanctuary cities, essentially getting rid of those. but there is a sheriff there in travis county, texas, which is the county seat is austin where you're sitting right there. what is she trying to do? >> she really is trying to create a sanctuary city here in the state of texas. i have to tell you, steve, this is completely outrageous because what she is doing under h

steve: two days before the inauguration, president barack obama refused 91 refugees from cuba. sent them back to castro's regime. brian: went through mexico and spopsed to get in this country and they were sent back. steve: where is the liberal media on this. here is kellyanne conway weighing in on all of there. >> what i think is everybody should be reminded of, it was his list originally number one. when you as powerful as a expresident or current sitting senator and you say or do anything to mislead people to believe something have an impact on something that clearly does not, it's a dangerous game. steve: it is a dangerous game. the president, former president barack obama said he hadn't wanted to gift new administration space and looks as if the space was less than 10 days. ainsley: i was asking down in the control room about the show i was saying has other presidents done this? i know george w. bush never criticized he groble barack obama. steve: nor his father. ainsley: yes it has been done. brian: jimmy carter never stopped up until recently. ainsley: nine or 10 days in

bean gave a lot of money to barack obama. tell me about the boycotts and outrage then. >> there was none. steve: there was none. >> no, definitely a double standard. both these guys won. obama won and trump won. my cousin's candidate, my candidate but i'm the one being targeted and vilified, and asked to be taken off the board. they demanded, that is the demand i leave the board. we have a 10-member board. steve: because heyou donated to the president. >> because i personally gave money to the campaign through this maine effort, put up signs in maine and put our governor's wife on tv to endorse trump for president in the last week. steve: are you going to resign from board? >> absolutely not. steve: good. >> your cousin with one of the eight largest donors to president obama. you gave $25,000 to president elects trump and they want you off the board and people are boycotting your company? mine thought donald trump won. more people will support him than against your company. you might see a revenue hike because of this. are yo

steve: if there's so many people suffering, isn't barack obama to blame? he's been question for eight years. >> there's no question about it. and the facts are clear. when barack obama was president, he did virtually nothing to improve the living standards, the jobs for african-americans in this country. steve: so how is it donald trump's fault? >> well, clearly these are people that are anarchists, communists, they are people who don't believe in capitalism, and they don't believe in donald trump. and i think the sad part about all of this is that donald trump is coming into office as president. this should be a happy time. we as americans should be saying what you know? he's our benefit. let's give him the benefit of the doubt. i personally love the guy. but to do this as americans. what does it say to the rest of the world who are looking at us and say what are with the americans? the guy hasn't done anything other than help carrier, ford. he's worked 24/7. we've seen a work earthquake that we have never seen in a president before. and here we go. let's

some people are pointing to a natural home of barack obama. chicago has seen share of problems including homicide rate in 2016 which unfortunately has skyrocketed. we had a guest, also murder rate 4031 shootings. steve: trump was tweeting about it. abby: a lifelong democrat switched her vote and voted for mr. trump. she is from chicago. tell me about that. >> you made promise of hope and change with jobs and vocational programs that never came. people sat on life-support literally waiting for a change, waiting for jobs, waiting for education. so what happens with idle hands it is devil's workshop. people instead of going to work and putting on suit and ties an uniforms going to pick up guns to feed their families and sell guns to feed their family. what i think president obama should do he should get behind the president-elect never before. help the president-elect do what he couldn't do, which is help our inner cities. abby: eight years later the president goes home to his city it's a sad, sad situation. >> well it is. it is a great city in a

but all you need to know is on day one of the obama administration, barack obama got seven of his cabinet picks not just nominated and all of that but confirmed, and they took office. and now they're going to fall short of that. they're not going to get seven. and, you know, that hamstrings the new president. so get moving on these new things. i think some of the nom news the trump people to be fair were slow on the paperwork and the ethical questions. there are a bunch of them who are ready to go. >> you don't want to gap and the other thing is how much power does chuck schumer actually have? ainsley: do you think they're all going to get confirmed and if so when is all of this going to be over with? >> i think this is going to drag on for a couple of weeks. look, by the way, toby skeet friend of mine. and he's coming to this big concert. and he started texting me about how angry he is not just the lawmakers boycotting but there are a lot of entertainers that we don't know about who originally said they were going to go to the lincoln memorial and backed out and here's what he said. i'm

bush and barack obama got when they became president. they had 7 to 9 confirmed secretaries of state, commerce secretaries so government can function. we need at least that and i think that's very important for us to actually show that all these plans and actions can be fulfilled immediately when you have your own team. steve: all right. ainsley: congratulations. >> thank you very much for sharing in the day. ainsley: going to be a long day for you. thanks for waking up early to talk to our viewers. we appreciate it. steve: president-elect trump is already making america's inner cities livable again. brunell donald shae here live from washington, d.c. ♪ don't let the food you eat during the day haunt you at night. nexium 24hr... shuts down your stomach's active acid pumps... to stop the burn of frequent heartburn... all day and night. have we seen them before? banish the burn with nexium 24hr. [phone buzzing] some things are simply impossible to ignore. the strikingly designed lexus nx turbo and hybrid. the suv that dares to go beyond

president barack obama commuting the sentence for chelsea manning. the former army intelligence analyst serving 35 years for leaking government secrets to wikileaks will now serve only seven of those

steve: on his first day barack obama said he was going to close gitmo. it's still open. what could donald trump do? lisa: president obama has not closed guantanamo bay, but he has off loaded a lot of the criminals. recidivism is 30% if not higher. donald trump vowed to keep it open and he is going to fill it with, quote, bad dudes. steve: what's his legacy. >> a lot of what he could get done because a lot of it wasn't in correlation with congress could be reversed. it's going to be interesting. steve: stay tune. iran nuke deal was supposed to prevent them from getting nukes, why are we letting them get a huge shipment of uranium from our friends in russia? we told you about this tough kid going to work after a serious car accident, after the story went viral, he made a heart-warming pledge, his update coming up next. >> there are no jobs, thousands of obama loyalists struggling find jobs according to politico. no longer 4,000 appointed jobs in just ten days. hollywood stars plan to go protest the day after the inauguration including america ferrera, amy schumer, scarlet

steve: to your point, barack obama had his team on day one. that is the way it work. >> the way government has to function. go back to 2001, where president george w. bush had just endured a bruising election result where went all the way to supreme court. took five extra weeks to get a president, yet able to get nine of his cabinet appointees including the secretary of state defense, commerce, treasury, ag, education. this is the way the government must function. i think the democrats will overplay their hand here. they will be blamed just as they were blamed in last couple election cycles on government-run health care, overplaying on ridiculous regulations, overplaying on taxes. they will be blamed. we won't be blamed. we're putting people up there. our cabinet designees have answered in their, they have had about 70 hours of mock sessions. they have answered over 2hundred questions and met with 87 united states senator, including 3democrats. ainsley: what questions do they ask? >> anything from the substance of the job they will be doing in

[applause] ♪ brian: emotions high at the white house as barack obama about to say good-bye. he gave a wonderful tribute to the vice president. he called him his brother. so that is a great relationship in a town, in a city, in a occupation where they said you don't have any real friends, those from are real friends. ainsley: he got emotional. lost his son recently. saying good-bye to the white house. they have been through a lot together. >> that whole team is on the way out of the white house because it is one week from today, donald trump will put his hand on the bible and become our 45th president of the united states. before he put his hand on the bible he is putting his thumbs on twitter. he is tweeting out moments ago. what are hillary clinton's people complaining about with respect to the fbi. based on information they had she should never have been allowed to run. guilty as hell. that is the president-elect writing. they were very nice to her. she lost because she campaigned in the wrong states. no enthusiasm. inspector general of the department of justice. ainsley:

>> barack obama has exited stage. spent most of the last month on vacation. they're inheriting a world that is chaotic because of the lack of american leadership and authority for the last eight years. so you can't expect president-elect trump to sit on the sidelines and making america doesn't participate in what we're supposed to be doing, which is the leader of the free world. i will say and to the point that was made earlier, this is unprecedented. do not conflate the fact that presidents are clearly in charge until january 20th. this is setting new policy, altering a policy that we've had for 40 years in the closing days, and it's done so to deliberately undermine the incoming administration. but these are roadblocks. these are temporary, done through executive order. >> running out of time. 15 seconds. go ahead. >> i will just say that like i said in the example of george w. bush, he basically tied president obama's hand with a rack, which was, you know, a matter of national security and extremely important, and he ties his hand to that timetable. this i

we are going to oppose anything that has barack obama's name on it. how many republicans voted for the affordable care act in either house? zero. that was the first time in the history of the country you had major social legislation passed without any opposition support. brian: that's in the recent history. what about in past history if you look at -- being totally candid about that one and said elections have consequences, and i won. that kind of set the table too. looking back, does this remind you of another administration where they started? >> it does. it reminds me of the reagan administration because, you know, now we know that o'neal, this democratic speaker of the house had a good relationship with reagan, but itly didn't really start that way. within days of the inauguration, reagan invited neil to the white house and said, look, you're in the big leagues now. and a little swamp comment from senator schumer. but it took a while to build that relationship with o'neal. and eventually reagan did. but politics really stopped at 6:00 p.m. years a

this all was put in place by barack obama. so to think that donald trump is going to anywhere measure up to that is just ridiculous. steve: well, the left has been in the tank for the left. you know, the left candidate hillary clinton they were positive from the get-go that he didn't have a chance hell escape. david remnick from the new yorker wrote the election of donald trump and he is also going to be there the election of donald trump to the presidency is nothing less than a tragedy for the american republic and goes on and on. >> um-huh. steve: i'm kind of surprised that the cnn media guy is hosting this thing since there are so many lefties. >> brian said cnn reliable sources host. he also has said that we can't normalize donald trump. that we have got to report him as, you know, for all the racist, zeno phobic. brian has a little bit of bias here. i am not at all surprised. then have you david remnick at the new yorker who basically in 2014 said that barack obama -- this piece just lauding barack obama said that he was

people like jeff sessions voted for members of barack obama's cabinet on day one. that they are vilifying now jeff sessions. so this isn't about who said, she said. this isn't about who did what and paybacks. this is about doing what's right for the country. that's what ought to be the actions that the senate takes. steve: sure. of course if you watch the mainstream media, of course it's all about we're going to talk about some lawsuits, being filed against trump today because of that hotel down in washington. and also the inaugural numbers. i don't know that anybody really cares, you know, in heart land america where you live where you came from and where i came from. they care about what donald trump promised. they care about jobs. they don't care how many people showed up at the inaugural on friday. if you look, barack obama had great big ghawrlg lot of people but a lot of -- a big attendance does not equal a great presidency. >> people in my opinion care more about a crowded guantanamo bay and a lot of terrorists there and off the battlefield. they don't care a

wait it was barack obama who paved this whole way of governing. donald trump is following. watch. >> the interesting thing or sort of ridiculous thing that we're hearing a lot today is that somehow conservatives or republicans are hypocritical for supporting trump doing executive orders when we criticized barack obama for doing the same thing. no one was against executive orders as executive orders. they're against using them as a substitute for going to congress. this is a great political fight for donald trump to have to go to congress and say, look, the democrats don't want to secure the border. >> and that's what house majority leader you heard him earlier right here on fox and friends saying, look, their strategy is two prong. have donald trump as the new president sort of weed out what they consider to be bad executive actions by president obama and then actually go and work with congress on major things like repealing and replacing obamacare and actually giving it the full force of law, not just executive action. that is obviously going to be the key test moving forw

brian: undertaking a war against barack obama and white house. we don't need to pretend that this is the way legitimate news organizations behave. steve. >> steve: bannon said opposition party. there she was talking about the opposition as well. my oh my. i don't remember that story getting covered. ainsley: we're number one. thank you to the viewers. brian: wherever she is. steve: she is still in washington. brian: i will look for her next time we are there. ainsley: send it over to he heather who has headlines. heather: happy friday. glawfd it's friday today. something big going on in washington, d.c. today. mike pence will make history as the highest elected official to ever speak at the march for life rally that is a pro-life event in washington, d.c. he tweeted this about it. quote: honor to meet with pro-life leaders in my office tonight. i just told them i look forward to address egged national march for life on friday. presidential advisor kellyanne conway will also join him. in addition to tens of thousands of marchers. kellyanne will jo

those guys were arrested or thrown out of the country and that's when barack obama, he had that ban in 2011. steve: keep in mind folks, this ban is temporary. figure out how to do it right. brian: award show last night. this happens, of course the sag awards. time for hollywood to be outraged. to hollywood. >> good evening fellow sag members and everyone at home and everyone at home and everyone in airports that belong in my america. >> because i love this country, i am horrified by its blemishes and this immigrant ban is a blemish and it sun american. >> as we act in the continuing narrative of stranger things we 1983 mid westers will repel bullies. we will shelter freaks and outcast. those who have no homes. we will get past the lies. we will hunt monsters. >> any money they have to spare, please donate to the aclu. [cheers and applause] >> to protect the rights and liberties of people across this country. >> i would like to go against the strain this evening and thank president trump for making frank gallagher seem so normal. steve: if you have never seen shameless frank gallagher i

i don't remember anything like this when barack obama was nothing rated eight years ago. meanwhile, mr. speaker, donald trump is up and tweeting already with some breaking news. and he's talking about obamacare. first up, the democrats led by head clown chuck schumer know how bad obamacare is and what a mess they are in. instead of working to fix it, they do the typical thing and blame. the fact that obamacare was a lie in the beginning. keep your doctor, keep your plan. it is time for democrats and republicans to get together and come up with a plan that really works and less expensive. what do you make of the president-elect singling out head clown chuck schumer? >> well, i actually approach it a little bit differently. i'm doing a newsletter today that will be on foxnews.com about schumer senator no. because he's said no supreme court nominee, no this, no, that, no, the next thing. and i think that's a terrible position for chuck to be in. schumer and chuck have known each other for many, many years, and i think the president frankly just wants to shrink him. and i wou

why wouldn't barack obama say listen you have to come together. he won 30 out of 50 states. ainsley: why do you expect he would brian fallon who ran hillary's campaign. friends with the obama administration folks saying he expected president obama to do more. people are saying this country is divided more than ever. >> steve: it's politics. it's setting up the donald trump flex four years. they are trying to diminish him, look as we have detailed with this bouquet of sound bites john lewis, without a doubt, historic figure is very politically leftist guy. he has been rated, i have got the fact right here, the liberal group americans for democratic action says lewis has a perfect liberal voting record. it looks like a lot of politics. but then again when you look at what is going on in the urban community, it's interesting last night tucker carlson had an exblack panther on by the name of mason weaver who is also an author, he said people like john lewis not helping the people in their district. listen. >> the congressional black caucus that has everything they own and contro

steve: speaking of defending obama, that's valerie, trusted aid to barack obama's job. here's she is talking about scandal free. >> the president prides himself in that his administration hasn't had a scandal. but that's not because he's being someone other than who he is. that's because that's who he is. that's who they are, and i think that's what really resonates with the american people. steve: scandal free administration. >> you can see democrats an a, independent c and republicans f. steve: lee carter, thank you very much for doing all of that work for us. steve: we're going to step aside. more fox and friends in two mins >> all right, breakfast with friends. abby is mobile, alabama. good morning, abby. >> i have to say i wish that i had time to talk to every single person. we're here in mobile, alabama. they've fabulous. it's the home of jeff sessions. you have heard how much is he loved down here. >> no kidding. you wish you could talk to everybody. we want some of the home fries. >> i want some of your beads, lady. >> they have the strawberry tea. >> thank you,

. >> before barack obama was elected president a lot of people said in criticism of clinton the guy has never read -- never run anything. the federal government is going to be a tough sled. fast forward eight years there was something to that. >> look what he has done so far. he pressured carrier, they caved. he pressured boeing on the new air force one plane, they caved or trimmed their sales. lockheed martin on the f 35 fighter, they came to terms on the cost of that and general motors, ford, don't know who is next. it is early in the morning. have a go at somebody else. he is picking off companies one by one and it is working at that level. steve: all the companies know if i'm out of line -- >> the writing is on the wall. it is a new relationship, carrot and stick. different from anything we have seen. steve: president-elect donald trump says they are too dangerous to let go but that is not stopping president obama from rushing to empty gitmo of the bad guys. oliver north in about we 10 minutes. this kid is in big trouble. the son of a new kansas congressman stealing his father's und